Scarborough Seagulls

[SpokeyDokey]

Just back from short stay in Scarborough - we had some unfinished business with a large chunk of the Cleveland Way which we managed to finish albeit not in one hit.

Very nice part of the world but for the *loody Seagulls.

Never having lived or stayed in a seaside town before we are not used to these monsters of the sky and the hideous racket that they make.

Sounds very nice as a daylight hours beach stroll backdrop but the damn things are at their squawking right through the night and then at 4.45am on the money they ramp it up and it is deafening.

Seriously: I am not understating the noise. Mrs SD who can sleep through anything was also woken the last 4 mornings and neither of us could get back to sleep.

We are never staying in a seaside resort again - how anyone can put up with this racket permanently is beyond me.

Rant over.

NB: Cellars Bar for top pub grub and live music (guy called Jesse) on a Thursday night.

 

[Fnaar]

One tried to nick my fish and chips the other day in brighton. Gave me a right big clunk on the head it did, the squawking eejit.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

[QUOTE 2613692, member: 30090"]Bothered - wear ear plugs.[/quote]


Good idea but I wore them at Silverstone when Mansell & Red 5 ruled the world and they made whooshing sounds in my ears and my head went fuzzy.

You just can't help some people!

 

[Brandane]

Her's a photo of one of our local seagulls. These things dive bomb tourists on the prom and steal their ice cream and/or chips.....

 

[snorri]

In the olden days seaside visitors could only get a good undisturbed sleep in foggy weather. When visibility was reduced the local lighthouse keepers switched on the foghorn to warn shipping and it silenced the seagulls too.

 

[BJH]

Had one once stand behind me once while I was sat on a bench eating a very expensive ice cream.

Suddenly jumped in and the b5446d bit my hand which hurt really badly forcing me to drop the ice cream which it's mate then swooped on and flew off with.

Then saw a woman come past with a hankie round a heavily bleeding hand, she had been mugged too but this time for a sandwich.

Evil feckers all of them

 

[BigonaBianchi]

...tell me about it.. I despise the bloody things...they make a horrendous racket ...especially at dawn....but the young ones throwing themselves off roofs provide reasonable entertainment as they learn to fly...or not as the case may be.

...I drew this...couldn't resist posting a link

http://telephoneart.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/sky-muggers.html

 

[gavgav]

Just back from short stay in Scarborough - we had some unfinished business with a large chunk of the Cleveland Way which we managed to finish albeit not in one hit.

Very nice part of the world but for the *loody Seagulls.

Never having lived or stayed in a seaside town before we are not used to these monsters of the sky and the hideous racket that they make.

Sounds very nice as a daylight hours beach stroll backdrop but the damn things are at their squawking right through the night and then at 4.45am on the money they ramp it up and it is deafening.

Seriously: I am not understating the noise. Mrs SD who can sleep through anything was also woken the last 4 mornings and neither of us could get back to sleep.

We are never staying in a seaside resort again - how anyone can put up with this racket permanently is beyond me.

Rant over.

NB: Cellars Bar for top pub grub and live music (guy called Jesse) on a Thursday night.

Totally agree with you!! I spent a weekend in Scarborough on a cricket club tour in early July and the seagull noise was incessant!! Especially bad at about 5:00am, when we had only been in bed for a few hours due to the copious amounts of beer that had been drunk!!

 

[Rezillo]

In St Ives this year, one second I was holding a delicious Zennor Moomaid ice-cream cone and the next second, said ice-cream was rapidly receding into the distance in the clutches of a herring gull.

It took the thing on the wing from behind me, swooping over my shoulder, and didn't even break the cone. B*stard.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

In St Ives this year, one second I was holding a delicious Zennor Moomaid ice-cream cone and the next second, said ice-cream was rapidly receding into the distance in the clutches of a herring gull.

It took the thing on the wing from behind me, swooping over my shoulder, and didn't even break the cone. B*stard.

down here the gulls throw ice creams back if it doesn't have a flake

 

[biggs682]

seagulls are all part of going to the seaside , especially when walking along the caravan roof

 

[Brandane]

seagulls are all part of going to the seaside , especially when walking along the caravan roof

Try living at the seaside! The tourists wonder why we get annoyed at people feeding the gulls. That is what turns them from being placid hunters of fish, into vermin who attack humans. Bliddy tourists think it's fine to throw chips at the gulls, then jump into their cars and drive back to the city, leaving us residents to suffer at the hands of the gulls .

 

[Accy cyclist]

seagulls are all part of going to the seaside , especially when walking along the caravan roof

If someone in another caravan annoys you just throw some food on their roof early morn'.

 

[Andy_R]

If someone in another caravan annoys you just throw some food on their roof early morn'.

hehehe....if they really pish you off, throw opened cans of princes mackerel fillets...(Edit, there are other brands of mackerel fillets available)

 

[Andy_R]

hehehe....if they really pish you off, throw opened cans of princes mackerel fillets...(Edit, there are other brands of mackerel fillets available)

Not that I'm sanctioning that sort of behaviour.